Archive for April, 2009

Click here to read Part I “It’s not show friends. It’s show business. ” – Bob Sugar (Jay Moore): Jerry McGuire (1996) What will happen to the major labels? The labels were only ever going to survive as long as they remained the powerful gatekeepers between the artists and a mass audience. To the artists, they are like bouncers at […]

“In the race to adopt new technologies, the music industry historically has finished just ahead of the Amish.” – Stan Cornyn, former Warner Music Group executive What is happening to the music industry? In short, the traditional music industry has been beaten, battered and completely transformed by a perfect storm of new technologies. It actually started with the introduction of […]